Both nations are run by Politburos full of army men - essentially military juntas.
And there they all, the creatures of the day, the former Irish army men who served in Lebanon and the Congo, the pensioneers, and fellows with but occasional jobs.
The promotion of army men also resurrects a disturbing memory: During nine years of martial law former President Ferdinand Marcos often gave civilian jobs to military chiefs in exchange for loyalty.
He records too he is much too good a reporter to blur the facts that many of the peace initiatives attempted over the years were led by sabra army men, among them leading generals, such as Amnon Lipkin- Shahak and Ami Ayalon.
Within seconds a small army of men in spotless white jellabiya robes arrived, whisking me and my bags to a one-story villa split into two guest rooms.
Half a million Red Army officers and men were killed, and many more were injured.
When he died he was a major in the army and commanding men several years older than himself.
She is Khaleesi now of a horseless army of unmanned men whose brutal training has left them only part human.
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They have yet to be arrested or questioned by the army or security men, as the group has eight armed jeeps blocking the entrance to the hospital.
Other militant groups have also grown more active in recent months, including the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandi Order, which has ties to members of Saddam Hussein's now-outlawed Baath party.
The average age in the city is 34, and young women from all over Kazakhstan flock here looking for husbands because of the army of single men working in its numerous ministries.
In AD1537 it was these stories of El Dorado that drew the Spanish conquistador Jimenez de Quesada and his army of 800 men away from their mission to find an overland route to Peru and up into the Andean homeland of the Muisca for the first time.
In 1557, the French army lost over 14, 000 men when they tried to block a Spanish army under Count Egmont at the Battle of Saint Quentin in the Spanish-French Wars.
Today's army is filled with men and women who want to emulate MacArthur, not Trump.
The Kim regime has an army of 1 million men, approximately 50% more than the Republic of Korea.
The ranks were filled with men like Army Private Joe Seccato.
He had called for 125, 000 volunteers to supplement the tiny peacetime army of 28, 000 men.
"We will fight whoever attacks the Mahdi Army, " chanted the men, many carrying weapons.
The driver of a motorcycle he was riding on said they had been attacked by half-a-dozen armed men in Indonesian army uniforms.
He built his own army of 45, 000 men and women and, with Japan's help, marched from Singapore through Burma and into eastern India.
But much of his army was made up of men from Darfur, men who might be reluctant to fight their own kin, so he decided to use the Arab tribesmen too.
Moreover, since the army was 2, 000 men under strength when that was supposedly around 104, 000, in mid-2005, it is only a little lighter now that the authorised complement is just under 102, 000.
The 400 Talmud students whom Ben-Gurion exempted from army service have grown to 110, 000 able-bodied haredi men who have served neither in the regular army nor in the reserves.
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Both men belonged to the army's Special Services Group, an elite force that Musharraf once commanded.
The army has about 400, 000 men and takes the lion's share of government spending.
Young Chechen men are the Russian army's favourite target for arrest, torture and disappearance.
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The East India Company controlled a standing army of some 200, 000 men, more than most European states.
U.S. and Iraqi special forces have arrested at least 59 officers and enlisted men from the Iraqi army.
This large army (currently 180, 000 men for a population of 7.5 million) is designed solely to defend Switzerland.
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